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Aggies plummet to No. 22
after disastrous weekend
ESPN/Collegiate Baseball
Poll
Team
Record
1. Wichita St.
54)
2. Southern California
12-3
3. Florida St.
11-2
4. Miami, Fta.
12-2
5. Oklahoma St
5-0
6. Stanford
13-5
7. Texas
1245
8 Georgia Tach
8-1
9. Arkansas
4*2
10. ArizonaSt
14-7
11. Louisiana St
6-3
12. Mississipi St.
3-2
13. Long Beach St
11-6
14. Norm Carolina
5-2
15. San Jose St
10-1
16. Ctemson
4-0
17. Illinois
5-4
18. Florida
7-5
19. Southwest Louisiana
11-2
20 UCLA i
13-5
21. Fresno St
7-6
22. Texas A&M
10-4
23 South Florida
7-4
24. Miami
3-3
25. Creighton
2-0
fROM STAFF & WIRE REPORTS
What a difference a week can
sake for A&M baseball coach Mark
ohnson.
Just seven days ago, his Aggies
noved up to their highest national
anking since last year, when they
pent 11 weeks in the No. 1 spot. In
ast week’s ESPN/Collegiate Baseball
Kill,A&M was No. 8.
The Aggies headed into a week-
•ndroad trip with a perfect 9-0 re-
:ord, and sporting confidence de-
pke warnings that their offensive
induction was more than suspect.
A&M’s pitching, which had been
pectacular up to that point, seemed
rood enough to make up for the
tarn’s lack of offense.
But over the weekend, those fears
inally caught up to Johnson.
A&M went 1-4 against win less
tarns in Louisiana. That included a
itar-sweep by lowly Louisiana Tech,
nd a doubleheader sweep by
fortheast Louisiana Sunday.
The Aggies, now 10-4 on the year,
plummeted 14 spots on Monday’s
poll. No. 22 A&M hosts No. 11 Loui
siana State at Olsen Field this week
end. Play starts Friday at 3 p.m., and
a Saturday doubleheader starts at 1
p.m.
It will be a rematch of last year’s
regional final, where the Tigers beat
the Aggies at Olsen Field to earn a
berth in the College World Series in
Omaha, Neb.
Defending national champion Wi
chita State has moved up to first in
this week’s baseball poll.
The panel of 105 coaches, sports
writers and sports information di
rectors moved the Shockers into the
top spot after previously top-ranked
Stanford lost two of three games to
Southern California.
The Shockers — who have out-
scored opponents 40-17 in their five
games — received 492 points, one
better than Southern California (12-
3).
The Trojans, sixth last week,
jumped four rungs to the No. 2 posi
tion.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball
Jkscame to an abrupt halt Monday
Bid threw the start of the regidar
tason in danger while three Pitts-
nirgh Pirates wondered w hether the
ifht over salary arbitration was
rorth it.
“The season is in very heavy jeop-
rdy,” Commissioner Fay Vincent
lid.
Owners and players did not meet
sexpected Monday and union chief
lonald Fehr left town, saying he
ouldn’t return to the bargaining ta
le until management makes new'
toposals.
Fehr, scheduled to meet with the
aion’s executive board Tuesday in
; benix, agreed the stalemate might
istpone regular season openers on
pnl 2.
“I think it’s been in jeopardy for
me days now.” he said. “I don’t
low if it’s gone, but it’s in some
opardy.”
But on the 12th day of the owners’
dout, Pirates pitcher Neal Heaton
id he is anxious to play.
Tm kind of leaning toward, ‘Let’s
jn,”’ he was quoted as saying by the
Ssburgh Post-Gazette. “This is get-
igridiculous. I’m ready to go.”
However, Pirates’ player rep-
lent
it the of-
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Bright says he
ranted Landry
Sredin 1987
DALLAS (AP) — Former Dal
las Cowboys owner H.R. “Bum”
Bright says he wanted to sack
Tom Landry in 1987, but
couldn’t talk Tex Schramm into
doing it, and that’s his one regret.
Now, a year after selling the
Cowboys to Jerry Jones, Bright
says his one regret is that he
didn’t just go ahead and do it
kimselt He didn't do it because
Schramm, who was the team’s
general manager at the time, told
Sim he didn’t nave a replacement
ready.
Jones continues to take crit
icism for firing Landry and instat
ing his longtime friend and for
mer Arkansas Razorbacks
teammate Jimmy Johnson at
■ad coach.
“If I had known there would
be been this much heat over
Tom, I’d have taken it myself,”
Bright told The Dallas Morning
Hews Sunday.
“I know that Jerry doesn’t de
serve all this stuff. It wouldn’t
be been as hard for me as it has
Been for Jerry, because he was
le one continuing. I just didn’t
realize,” Bright said.
Bright said he “didn’t talk to
Tom Wi times the whole period I
»as owner.”
resentative Mike LaValliere said he
spoke with Heaton and two other
players who expressed similar senti
ments — Bob Kipper and Jay Bell —
and believed they would support the
union if it came to a vote.
“When you’re dealing with 26
teams and 24 players on each team,
of course you're going to have varied
responses and different opinions,”
LaValliere told The Associated
Press. LaValliere also said he would
tell the dozen Pirates at the site of
the team’s camp in Bradenton, Fla.,
to go home Friday if there was no
settlement.
Owners and players each say a
minimum of three weeks of spring
training is needed plus several days
for players to travel to camps. The
exhibition season was scheduled to
start Thursday — those four open
ers have been canceled — and plans
were to be made Tuesday about fu
ture spring-training games.
Talks have stalled over salary arbi
tration eligibility. The union wants
players again to be eligible'for arbi
tration after two years, as they were
before the 1985 agreement, which
increased the requirement to three
years.
Vincent sympathized with fans,
saying they would view the logjam as
“two giant organizations over
whelmed with riches, fighting in cir
cumstances where there’s a national
obligation or trust at stake.”
Fehr paid a courtesy call to Vin
cent on Monday before leaving for
Arizona. He said he expects to brief
players around the country after
Tuesday’s meeting; he did not say
when he would return.
“My expectation is that after the
Phoenix meeting the great likeli
hood is that I will see players in two
or three other places before coming
back to New York,” Fehr said.
Management negotiator Chuck
O’Connor said he would wait for
Fehr to call about another bargain
ing session.
“It really depends on his meet
ing,” O’Connor said. “At the earliest,
I probably could hear from him
Wednesday. But, yes, it could be a
week before we get together again. I
hope not, but it could be.”
Asked what it would take for the
union to return to negotiations, Fehr
said, “It has to take an indication
from the clubs that there’s some
thing meaningful to talk about.”
Spring lockout allowing
Ryan to work in ‘bullpen’
HOUSTON (AP) — The owners’
spring training lockout has allowed
Nolan Ryan to spend more time in
the bullpen. The best cattleman in
baseball is tending to his other busi
ness these days — raising and selling
livestock.
Ryan, in town for a livestock sale,
was asked by fellow ranchers about
the spring training lockout and pros
pects for a contract settlement.
“They’ve still got to work out what
percentages will be taken from the
television cut for the pension fund,”
Ryan told them. “Then they’ve got
to make a decision on what to do
about arbitration. I hope it gets
worked out soon.”
But until then, Ryan’s getting the
most out of raising and selling cattle,
as he did Saturday in the Astro Clas
sic Beefmaster sale at the Astrodome
Marriott.
Chuck Howley, a former Dallas
Cowboys linebacker-turned-cattle
man, said Ryan attracts people to
livestock shows the way his appear
ances on the mound draw fans to the
ballpark.
“Nolan always draws a great
crowd,” Howley told The Dallas
Morning News. “But maybe most of
them just want his autograph on
their hats.”
Howley, a cattleman for 11 years,
says Ryan, who has been raising
cattle since 1972, is regarded in live
stock circles with the same respect he
commands in sports.
“He stands behind everything he
sells,” Howley said. “He’s good for
the business, good for the breed.”
Ryan, reared in the rural town of
Alvin, south of Houston, said he be
came interested in cattle because of
summers spent on his uncle’s dairy
farm.
The man who fanned Oakland’s
Rickey Henderson last summer to
collect his 5,000th career strikeout
now has three ranches.
He said he enjoys watching his
cattle develop into either a
championship bull or a heifer, “Plus,
I just always liked the people in this
business,” he said, shrugging.
Only a handful of onlookers got
into the bidding Saturday. But
Wayne Fisher of Houston, who co
sponsored the sale with Ryan, said
the buyers were not in it simply to
acquire a Nolan Ryan keepsake.
“You’re dealing with professional
cattle people here,” Fisher said. “I
don’t think they’re buying for any
other reason.”
Ryan’s 15 lots drew $32,050, less
than what he expected. The payoff
wasn’t exactly a loss, but Ryan almost
took it that way. He turned to a fel
low cattleman as the auction ended
and frowned.
“I thought it could have been a lot
stronger,” he said.
Frevino’s putter working magic
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Lee Trevino’s putting has
I'en a big boost to his daughter’s driving.
Trevino capped another lucrative weekend on the
jenior PGA Tour by rolling in a 15-foot birdie putt
Way on the final hole of the Chrysler Cup to win a
•fivLeBaron convertible.
The car went to the player with the lowest final
fund. Trevino tied Don Bies for the honor with a 3-
Wer-par 69 and won the contest because he birdied
*0.18, the tiebreaker hole.
Easy come, easy go. The hottest player in golf said
fllgive away the car.
Tve got all the Toyotas in the world,” said Trevino,
does commercials for the Japanese automaker,
i'egot a daughter, Lesley — 23 years old, and she’s
her asked me for a thing. I think my daughter needs
% car real bad.”
At the rate he’s making money this year, Trevino can
fiord to give away a few more cars. His $50,000 share
If playing on the winning United States team in the
■IryslerCup increased Trevino’s earnings to $280,000
•11990, his first full year on the Senior Tour.
“I’m kind of on a roll right now,” he said. “I’m hitting
it pretty good. I hope March isjust as good.”
Trevino, who turned 50 on Dec. 1, swept his three
Chrysler Cup matches. He leads the Senior Tour in five
of its 10 statistical categories, including scoring (68.3
strokes per round), putting and greens in regulation.
Trevino has already won more money than in 1970,
when he led the PGA Tour in earnings.
“My best year on the tour was 1980 — I won
$385,000 that year,” Trevino said. “And I’m actually
playing better now. My scoring average that year was
69./3, and my scoring average now is lower than that.”
Trevino isn’t surprised to be doing well — he pre
dicted that his first year on the Senior Tour would be a
big one. His peers aren’t surprised, either.
“Lee Trevino has always been in a class of the Ho
gans and the Sneads and the Nelsons and the Venturis
—t people that were artists instead of just golfers,” said
Chi Chi Rodriguez, who teamed with Trevino for two
rounds last weekend.
“This guy can do drawings wfith a golf ball. He looks
like Pablo Picasso out there. And he’s hitting the ball
farther than I ever went on vacation.”
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